Cabinet.



No. 772,982. I PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904. G. WAZLAVIK.

CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED 111 3.30, 1903.

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No. 772,982. I I PATENTED 00135, 1904.

' i G. WAZLAVIK.

- CABINET.

APPLIOLTION FILED APR. 30, 1903.

K0 MODEL. 2 sums-511mm- 2.

' tion of the improved cabinet.

UNITED STATES Patented October 25, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forrning part of Letters Patent No. 772,982, dated October 25, 1904:. Application filed April 30, 1903. Serial No. 154,928. (No modclfi To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEoRe WAzLAvIK,rosiding at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cabinets, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a novel cabinet which in small size is intended and adapted for the amusement of children, especially little girls. The invention is, however, not to be. understood to be limited exclusively to a toy construction, as in a larger size the cabinet might be employed as household furniture for the use of adults.

The novel features of the cabinet relate chiefly to the inclosing case, including its flexi-' ble sliding doors, to the interior arrangement of the cabinet and its folding and sliding bedstead'or frame, and minor features incidental thereto.

The invention consists of the cabinet, its parts and their combinations, as herein described and claimed,or the equivalents thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front eleva- Fig. 2 is a vertical section centrally of the cabinet at a right angle to the front view shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the cabinet on line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking downwardly. Fig. 4 is a view of the bedstead forming a part of the cabinet looking at it from the rear as it is folded up in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a front View of a fragment of the cabinet, the case being open and the bedstead being thrown down and opened out in position for use. Fig. 6 is a transverse section horizontally of the cabi' net, the bedstead being pulled out at the front and opened out for use, as shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail of thedoor-fastening device.

Referring to the drawings, my improved cabinet includes a case 1 in box-like form, preferably made chiefly of wood, the case including a back 2, sides 3 3, a top at. a bottom 5, and front side rails 6 6. Also a drawer 7 is arranged to slide into the case below the bottom 5, and doors 8 8 are provided for closing the otherwise open front of the cabinet above the floor 5.

The two rigid doors 8 8, each as high and the two together as wide as the opening in the front of the cabinet which they are adapted to close, are provided with glazed openings 9 9 and at their side edges are hinged to the first bar 10 of a series of bars succeeding and secured thereto by a hinge or flexible attachment, preferably consisting of a piece of cloth or fabric 12, glued or cemented to each of the series of bars. These bars are as long as the height of the'doors and are arranged adjacent to each other successively in vertical position, and these bars and the doors themselves connected thereto rest and travel on the floor 5, being guided in their paths of travel by the sides 3 3 of the cabinet, an outer guard 13, one at the bottom and one at the top ofthe cabinet, and an inner guard 14, one at the bottom and one at the top ofthe cabinet, the several guards, in connection with the sides of the cabinet 3 3, forming grooves on the bottom and at the top of the cabinet in which the doors and the flexible door-supports (made up of the bars 11 11 and the connecting fabric 12) are re' tained and travel. It will be understood that when the doors 8 8 each of which is of considerable size, are to be used to close the front of the cabinet the doors with the flexible supports are drawn out at the front, and the doors are then swung toward each other in the manner shown in Fig. 3, thereby closing the cabinet, and that when the cabinet is opened the doors are swung open, and then the flexible supports and the doors are pushed into the cabinet rearwardly, taking the positions shown in Fig. 6. For securing the doors in closed position, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, one of the doors is fastened by a springlatch 15, secured to the floor of the cabinet and arranged to engage, a catch 16, fixed on the door. The other door is provided with a swinging latch 17, pivoted on the door near its edge and arranged when the doors are in closed position to engage by being swung thereto a pin-catch 18, fixed in the other door. The pivot of the swinging latch 17 terminates in an outwardly-projecting faced arbor on which a key 19 fits removably, which key is adapted to swing the latch 17 into or out of engagement with the pin-catch '18.

Within the cabinet and as a part thereof a bedstead or crib is provided, which consists of the bottom frame 20, hinged at one side onto the supporting-blocks 21 21, which are dovetailed and slidable forward and back in undercut grooves 22 22 in the guard-piece 14, forming a partof the bottom of the cabinet. An open-work footboard 23 and open-work side boards 24 24 are hinged to rails 30 30, faced on the bottom frame, and are adapted to swing to vertical positions thereon, and the footboard is arranged to be secured to the side boards releasably by hooks 25 25, hinged on the footboard and adapted to engage eyes fixed in the ends of the side boards, whereby the footboard and the side boards are locked to each other in upright positions. At the head ends the side boards are provided with extensions 26 26, hinged to the side boards and adapted to be swung to extending positions when in use and to be folded down onto the side boards when the side boards are first folded down onto the end boards. An open-work headboard 27 is hinged to the bottom frame 20 and is so mounted that it is capable of being folded down onto the bottom frame as well as the footboard and to be swung upwardly into vertical position, to be there secured to the side boards'or over farther into an inclined position, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, in which position it is adapted to be secured to the extension side boards 26 26 by means of hooks 28, hinged on the headboard and adapted to engage eyes fixed in the extension side frames. When opened up into position for use, the crib or bedstead has upright side boards and a footboard and an inclined headboard, as will be understood from Figs. 5 and 6. Afolding leg 29 is hinged on the bottom frame 20 at its outer edge and is adapted to stand on the floor when the crib is pulled out for use and to fold against the under side of the bottom frame when the crib or bedstead is pushed back into the cabinet and is upturned against the rear, as shown in Fig. 2.

hen this cabinet is constructed in small s1ze,1t is adapted for use as a dolls house, and

when it is to be closed up one or more dolls may be placed in the cabinet and inclosed behind the glazed doors, as shown in Fig. 1, and when the cabinet is opened the crib may be drawn out and the dolls can be placed on a bed made in the crib.

An ornamental front 31 of any prefered design may be placed on the top of the cabinet net in the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

What I claim as my invention is In combination, an upright cabinet having a floor a top and a back leaving the front open, ways on the inside of the cabinet on the floor and the top at the sides and continuously around at the back, laterally-liexible doorsupports extending from the bottom to the top of the cabinet on the inside and supported and traveling in the ways at the sides and back of the cabinet but togetherof less length than the length of the ways, a crib-like apparatus mounted on blocks to swing down and up, ways on the floor of the cabinet extending from the front substantially to the rear of the cabinet, blocks slidable in said ways on which said crib is mounted, the construction being such that when the flexible door-supports are withdrawn from the ways therefor at the back said blocks can be pushed back to the rear of the cabinet and the crib can be folded up against the back of the cabinet between and in the place of said withdrawn flexible supports, and when the blocks and crib are folded forward the flexible supports can be pushed back into the ways at the rear of the cabinet witlnlrawing the doors from the front to the sides of the cabinet and the crib can then be outfolded across and in front of the door-opening of the cabinet.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORG WAZLA Vl li. lVitnesses:

(l. T. BENEDICT, ALMA KLUG. 

